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THE YALTA CONFERENCE ( 4th February - 11th February 1945)
Countries: USSR, UK, US.
Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin agreed that Europe would be politically rebuilt with democratic goverments. It ended with the redrew of the boundaries of Poland and Germany and the division of Berlin into four military zones under US, British, French and Soviet occupation -
THE GREECE CONFLICT ( 1946 - 1950)
The conservatives and the armed forces of the monarchical goverment, supported by the United States and the United Kingdom, clashes against the Greek Communists and members of the anti-fascist resistance organization -
THE IRON CURTAIN (1946 - 1991)
Countries: East and West States of Europe.
It was initially a non-physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II to the end of the Cold War. It ended with the Fall of the Berlin Wall -
THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE (1947)
Countries: Turkey and Greece
It was a measure created by the US that pretended to give support to the cities that resisted armed minorities or exterior pressures that aimed to avoid the US capitalist system. It ended with the expulsion of communism from France, Italy, Belgiumn and Denmark. -
THE CREATION OF NATO (1949)
Countries: United States and 11 Western Nations
The organization was created to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. It main function was to rebuilt the economy, re-establish industries and re-establish industries. The NATO ended with the necessity of revenge to those countries that would attack any member of the organisation. If any one was attacked, the US will respond with a nuclear attack -
THE KOREAN WAR ("25th June 1950 - 27 July 1953)
Countries: North Korea and South Korea
The Korean War was a bellic conflict between North and South Korea that started when Korean's people Democrati Reublic invaded the Republic of Korea. It ended with the signing of the Korean Armistice Agreement. -
THE CREATION OF THE WARSAW PACT (1955)
Countries: Eastern Bloc Socialist Republics of Central and Eastern Europe.
It was a military pact in which, the main objective was to contrarest the OTAN menace and specially the re-arming of the German Federal Republic. At the end, the new goverments of that countries weren't agree with this Pact and in January 1991, Czecoslovakia, Hungary and Poland moved away. Then, the Pact was dissolved -
THE VIETNAM WAR (1th November 1955 - 30th April 1975)
Countries: North and South Vietnam
The Vietnam war was a long, costly and divisive conflict that pitted the communist goverment of North Vietnam against South Vietnam. It ended with an agreement between North Vietnam and the US, ending the hostilities between the two nations. -
THE HUNGARY CONFLICT (1956)
Countries: Hungary
It was a spontaneous revolutionary movement against the Popular Republic of Hungary Goverment and its laws adopted from the USSR. The conflict ended with the Sovietic victory and the fail of the revolutionaries -
THE SPUTNIK (1957)
Countries: USSR
The Sputnik was the first satelite launched by the USSr into a elliptical low Earth orbit. At the end, Its battery died after three weeks in the space. -
THE BUILDING OF THE BERLIN WALL (13TH aUGUST 1961)
Countries: East Germany, East Berlin.
It was a concrete wall that divided physically and ideologically the city of Berlin. Yhe barrier contained lookout towers, trenches, nail beds and other protections. IN 1989 the wall falled because the aperture of frontiers between Austria and Hungary. -
THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS (October 1962)
Countries: US, USSR, Cuba
It was a confrontation initiated by the American discovery of Soviet ballistic missile deployments in Cuba. This conflict, is considered like a massive nuclear war. It ended when Nikita Khrushachev agreed to remove Russian missiles from Cuba in exchange of respect from the Us to Cuba -
THE END OF THE USSR ( 8th December 1991)
Countries: Belorussia, Ukraine, Russia.
It ended when the leaders of this three countries signed a pact that claimed that the USSR will disappear and instead the Comunnity of INdependent States will appear. Later, in December, Gorbachov resigned the position.
